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Center honoring trailblazing lawyer, civil rights activist and priest opens in Durham

Yonat Shimron — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 19:58:45 +0000

(RNS) — Known as the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, the refurbished two-story clapboard home will further the kind of progressive social causes Murray, who died in 1985, championed.

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National Baptists choose Connecticut pastor Boise Kimber as next president

Adelle M. Banks — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 18:18:50 +0000

(RNS) — Disqualified challengers hoped sufficient ‘no’ votes would cause the election process to restart.

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At Vatican, physicists and theologians join forces to answer life’s big questions

Claire Giangravé — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 17:24:14 +0000

(RNS) — At a conference at the Vatican, physicists and theologians made the case for cooperation between faith and science.

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National Baptists hear their outgoing president and Ketanji Brown Jackson as meeting ends

Adelle M. Banks — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 22:52:53 +0000

(RNS) — Jackson described how faith, especially instilled by her now late grandmother, had undergirded her personal and professional life.

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Members of shuttered Rwandan churches gather in homes as leaders quietly protest

Tonny Onyulo — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 20:45:47 +0000

(RNS) — After a crackdown on unapproved churches, Christian leaders say the government's move encroaches on religious freedom and applies regulations unequally.

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Study: Pro-Israel Jewish students pay a growing social price

Yonat Shimron — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 20:12:58 +0000

(RNS) — In 2024, more than half of Jewish students said they paid a social penalty for supporting Israel’s existence, up from 34% in 2022, a new report from a Tufts University researcher finds.

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Rutgers task force report urges university to add caste discrimination ban

Richa Karmarkar — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 22:52:45 +0000

(RNS) — Beginning in 2020 with Brandeis University, more than 20 higher education institutions across the country have followed momentum to recognize caste discrimination in their policies. But some in Hindu advocacy circles see this as a concerted attempt to negatively label one community as 'casteist.'

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The Meeting House, once one of Canada’s largest churches, shuts down after scandal

Bob Smietana — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 20:42:27 +0000

(RNS) — Nine of the megachurch's satellite sites have relaunched as a network of churches with shared preaching and support services — while The Meeting House will continue to collect donations to support those congregations. The rebranding came after The Meeting House lost its liability insurance due to an abuse scandal involving former pastor Bruxy Cavey.

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Want to write a hit worship song? Invite a few friends to church.

Bob Smietana — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 20:26:47 +0000

(RNS) — When the CCLI Top 100 chart first appeared in 1988, most of the songs had one writer. Today, the average hit worship song has at least two writers — who often have ties to the so-called Big Four megachurches that dominated modern worship songs.

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National Baptists hold annual meeting as leadership questions continue

Adelle M. Banks — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 21:41:29 +0000

BALTIMORE (RNS) — The Rev. Jerry Young, pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi, has been president for two five-year terms and cannot run for a consecutive third term.

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